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Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeLaura Medford-Davis, MD: Closing the Leadership Gap from Clinician to CEOIn this episode of Leadership Rounds, Oxeon’s Dr. Reena Pande sits down with Laura Medford-Davis, MD, MS, a practicing emergency physician and Partner at McKinsey & Company, to unpack one of healthcare’s most urgent leadership challenges: the disconnect between physician leadership ambition and CEO representation.Laura shares her path from clinical training to health services research, federal policy work, and ultimately McKinsey, where she leads clinician-focused work and co-leads clinical operations. Together, Reena and Laura explore why clinicians are often perceived as “not ready” for top leadership, how that perception becomes self-reinforcing, and what both individuals and inst...
2026-02-1141 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeSheila Gujrathi, MD: On The Mirror Effect and the Inner Work of LeadershipLeadership isn’t always about becoming more confident. It’s about becoming more self-aware.In this episode of Leadership Rounds, physician executive Dr. Reena Pande sits down with Sheila Gujrathi, MD (multi-time biotech CEO, board leader, and best-selling author) for a candid conversation about leadership beyond credentials. Drawing from her book The Mirror Effect, Sheila shares her journey from academic medicine to McKinsey, Genentech, and the C-suite, unpacking why fear, insecurity, perfectionism, and shame often intensify (not disappear) as leaders rise. Together, they explore how to recognize toxic work environments, negotiate with integrity, and show up fully and...
2026-01-1447 min
The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health PodcastThe Rise of Clinician Innovators | Dr. Reena PandeMany clinicians quietly wonder if there's a “next chapter” beyond the hospital walls, and an increasing number are stepping into health tech roles that didn’t exist a decade ago.Dr. Reena Pande has lived that shift firsthand: from cardiologist at a top academic center, to early employee and CMO at AbleTo, to now leading clinician executive search at Oxeon. She joins us to unpack what it really takes for clinicians to succeed in startups, why these roles matter more than ever, and how AI is reshaping both medical training and leadership.We cover:🩺 Wh...
2025-12-2236 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeRebecca Mitchell, MD: An Innovative Product Builder & Venture InvestorLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena Pande closes out the year with a powerful conversation featuring Rebecca Mitchell, MD, a product leader, global health practitioner, and now co-founder of Scrub Capital, an early-stage venture firm built around the expertise of clinician-operators.Rebecca shares her path from growing up in a rural healthcare desert to working in global health and training at UCSF, where she witnessed firsthand the power of diverse, cross-functional teams through the LifeWrap project, an innovation that has saved mothers’ lives around the world. These experiences inspired her transition from traditional clinical paths into clinical product le...
2025-12-1049 min
HealthTech RemedyCardiologist to CMO: A Physician's Transition to Health Tech with Dr. Reena Pande, Partner @ OxeonHow does a successful academic cardiologist leave a prestigious career to build a pioneering virtual mental health company from the ground up? This episode unpacks the incredible physician transition to health tech with Dr. Reena Pande, a cardiologist turned innovator who scaled a startup to a major acquisition and is now shaping the future of clinician executive leadership. If you've ever wondered how to leverage your clinical expertise beyond the bedside and make an impact at scale, this conversation is for you.In this deep dive, Dr. Reena Pande shares the untold story of her journey from...
2025-11-1934 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeDana Udall, PhD: Leading with Intention: Authenticity, Culture, and Clinical Leadership in the Health Tech EraPsychologist-turned-operator Dana Udall (CCO, Nourish) joins Oxeon’s Dr. Reena Pande to demystify how clinician leaders scale distributed care, align clinical quality with business outcomes, and bring an intentional, ACT-informed leadership style to cross-functional teams. She urges clinicians to help inform and govern the next wave of AI-enabled care delivery.Key Topics & TakeawaysFrom practice to platform: A packed waiting room revealed the limits of 1:1 care and pushed Dana toward scalable, data-driven models (Ginger/Headspace → Included Health → Nourish).Intentional > “pure authentic”: Drawing on Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dana favors intentional responses over impul...
2025-11-1338 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeWill Shrank, MD: Navigating Healthcare's Biggest Challenges Across Every SectorDr. William Shrank is CEO of Aradigm, launched in November 2024 and funded by Andreessen Horowitz, a carve-out insurance product for cell and gene therapy aimed at improving access and affordability of transformative therapies. Prior to launching Aradigm, Dr. Shrank served as Venture Partner, Bio and Health at Andreessen. Previously, Dr. Shrank served as Chief Medical Officer for Humana, where his responsibilities included implementing Humana’s integrated care delivery. He previously held the position of Chief Medical and Corporate Affairs Officer, during which time he oversaw government affairs. Dr. Shrank joined Humana from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) wh...
2025-10-0832 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeCarolyn Bradner Jasik, MD: Mastering Clinical-Product Partnership in an Age of HealthTech InnovationDr. Jasik is a board-certified pediatrician with a career spanning health technology startups, multidisciplinary care, education, and research. Prior roles in digital health include serving as Chief Medical Officer at Omada Health. At Verily, Carolyn supports the clinical and research teams to create and test the next generation of precision medicine solutions for chronic disease. She also holds a post as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed her medical degree at the University of Chicago and her residency, fellowship and research training at UCSF. In their candid conversation, they explore:
2025-09-1055 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeAndrew Norden, MD: Setbacks and Successes Before Finding a Fit in the Health-Tech WorldAs Chief Medical Officer of OncoHealth, Dr. Norden leads clinical affairs and strategy, a cancer digital health company helping health plans, employers, oncologists, and patients navigate the physical, mental, and financial complexities of cancer. An accomplished neuro-oncologist, Dr. Norden previously served as CMO of COTA, an oncology company focused on the curation and use of real-world data and as Deputy Chief Health Officer and lead physician for oncology and genomics at IBM Watson Health. Dr. Norden’s career began at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where he served as Associate CMO and led clinical trials for patients with gl...
2025-08-1351 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeRich Feifer, MD: Clinical Leadership at Scale - Trust, Teams and TransformationDr. Feifer has dedicated his career to improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare and the health of populations served. Most recently, he served as Chief Medical Officer at InnovAge, a multi-state provider of PACE programs, serving frail dual-eligible seniors by delivering comprehensive patient-centric care, enabling them to age independently for as long as possible. Prior to joining InnovAge, he was executive vice president at Genesis HealthCare, one of the nation’s largest skilled nursing, rehabilitation, and long-term care providers. Before Genesis, Dr. Feifer was Aetna’s Chief Medical Officer of National Accounts and previously served as Vice President of C...
2025-07-0950 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeLiz Kwo, MD, Chief Commercial Officer: A Clinician Leading Innovation and Driving GrowthDr. Liz Kwo, MD, MBA, MPH, is the Chief Commercial Officer of Everly Health, a digital health company serving millions of people annually by expanding access to virtual-first disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Before this, Dr. Kwo served as Deputy Chief Clinical Officer for Elevance. Dr. Kwo has founded several venture-backed companies throughout her career, including InfiniteMD (acquired by Consumer Medical) and New Pathway Education and Technology Group (acquired by EIC Education), and she has also held leadership positions at American Well and Medtronic. As a Harvard-trained and practicing Preventive Medicine physician and health tech pioneer, she's at the...
2025-06-1140 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeNeel Shah, MD: One CMO's Journey from Academia to EntrepreneurshipDr. Neel Shah, MD, MPP, FACOG, is Chief Medical Officer of Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic for women's and family health, and visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School. He is also the co-founder of the March for Moms Association, a coalition of more than 20 leading organizations dedicated to increasing public and private investment in the wellbeing of mothers, and the founder of Costs of Care, an NGO that curates insights from clinicians and patients to help delivery systems provide better care. His work to build equitable, trustworthy systems of care is featured in the documentaries “Color of Care,” prod...
2025-05-1445 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeRelaunching Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena Pande.We’re thrilled to announce that Reena's podcast is relaunching under a new name: Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena Pande! You can expect the same great host, just with a new name and fresh look. Each month, Reena will explore lessons of exceptional healthcare leaders through candid conversations with outstanding clinician executives who are catalyzing change across our industry. Stay tuned! We'll be dropping our first monthly episode is dropping May 14th.
2025-05-0701 min
Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeMatt Patterson, MD: A Physician-Operator on "The Love Economy" and Authentic LeadershipDr. Matt Patterson is the President of WelbeHealth, an organization that provides high quality, integrated, clinical and social care for vulnerable seniors through their PACE program. In his role as President, he oversees all operations for the business. He has long been dedicated to improving the value, accessibility, and experience of healthcare for all people and their caregivers. He’s led market changing innovation across clinical, operational, and technology domains with AirStrip, McKinsey & Company, and the United States Navy.In this episode, we talk about what he calls "The Love Economy" and what it means to lead wi...
2024-10-0346 min
Leadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeErika Pabo MD MBA: A Clinician & Operator on Unlocking the Value of the Clinician ExecutiveErika Pabo, MD MBA is a physician, executive leader, and entrepreneur with deep experience building, operating, and transforming businesses across the value-based healthcare ecosystem. She currently serves as Chief Transformation Officer & Operations Leader for Humana’s Primary Care Organization, the largest senior focused primary care business in the country that operates in market as Centerwell, Conviva and Elite. Erika previously served Co-President at Author, a company she helped incubate and operate as a business segment within Humana and where she still sits on the board. Prior to that, she served as Medical Director for Population Health and Associate Director fo...
2024-08-2355 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeAmi Parekh MD and Robin Glass: A Dynamic Duo on the Alchemy of TeamsFor this next episode of #ConversationsWithClinicians, I really wanted to highlight a duo, a great clinician executive alongside their non-clinician partner-in-crime, to shine a spotlight on how a partnership across disciplines can flourish and thrive and be a cornerstone for a company’s success. Today's guests are Ami Parekh, MD JD, Chief Health Officer at Included Health and Robin Glass, President at Included Health. In this wonderful conversation, we cover:- How they and their teams work with one another- The importance of the clinical voice at the executive table- Knowing your "why" and wh...
2024-08-0857 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeMinal Patel, MD: On Being a Doc, Consultant, Health Plan Exec, and EntrepreneurDr. Minal Patel is the currently the founder and CEO of Abacus Insights. After beginning his career as a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, he served as consultant at McKinsey, and held several roles at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey including Chief Strategy Officer. His former company Care Management International was acquired by iHealth Technologies.In this fun and wide-ranging conversation, Minal and I discuss his decision to pursue business and entrepreneurship, the role of mentors and role models, staying true to your mission, tapping into the expertise of those around you, and some final...
2024-08-0657 minLeadership Rounds with Dr. Reena PandeThe Clinician CEO: at the Intersection of Business & Clinical | with Jess Gaulton, MD; Nicki Tessler, PsyD; Rachel McCrickard, LMFTThis Virtual Roundtable hosted live on May 14, 2024 highlighted the experiences of three clinician CEOs leading early stage, venture-backed healthcare companies:- Jess Gaulton, MD, CEO of FamilyWell Health- Nicki Tessler, PsyD, MBA, CEO of BeMe Health- Rachel McCrickard, LMFT, CEO of Motivo HealthIn this episode, we explore lessons learned at the intersection of business and clinical disciplines. Hear about their experiences moving from clinical care to entrepreneurship, founding and building early stage companies, navigating life and leadership, and much more. About me:
2024-05-2156 min
Raising HealthCMO vs. CPO with Peter Shalek and Reena PandePeter Shalek, a Chief Product Officer, currently at Stellar Health and formerly at AbleTo, and Reena Pande, currently a strategic advisor and formerly the Chief Medical Officer of AbleTo, join Julie Yoo and Justin Larkin of a16z Bio + Health. As Julie mentions during the episode, there’s international relations, and then there’s CMO/CPO relations. Peter and Reena talked about working together to improve their relationship and the outcomes of their teams, and they get granular about what worked and what didn’t.Today’s podcast is for healthcare builders who are struggling to balanc...
2023-10-1728 min
Off the Chart: A Business of Medicine PodcastCombating "Point Solution Fatigue"Physicians Practice® spoke with Dr. Reena Pande, chief medical officer of AbleTo, about the current standards and challenges physicals are facing with standards of care.
2021-09-1111 min
A Healthy DoseReena PandeTrevor and Steve sit down with Reena Pande, Chief Medical Officer of AbleTo, this week on A Healthy Dose.
2021-05-2036 min